Nation's moral code must get back on track

Diabolic, or any other word that comes close to that meaning, has not appeared in any of the “Letters to the Editor” or “Sound Off” comments, that I have read in the Daily Local News in the past week regarding the tragedy that occurred in Connecticut.

The recommended solutions to this problem of killing innocent civilians (and children) has been along the lines of arming the teachers, providing police protection in every school, more gun control laws, more proactive health treatment for those who display a tendency to act peculiar. All these are good unworkable recommendations that conceivably could correct situations where we the people and our government have failed to protect the defenseless and vulnerable among us.

History and common sense tells me that mankind has not come close to making the world a better place to live. In my lifetime I have witnessed the end of WW I, the war to end all wars. We fought WW II to make the world safe for democracy. The creation of the United Nations after WW II was to provide a dialog for peacefully settling disputes among nations. The election of socialist governments is supposed to provide the good life for everyone. A minority’s demand in the USA to eliminate God, the Ten Commandments, and the Bible from our schools, promote the separation of church and state, and declare “sin” nonexistent in our public life. Our nation now has laws making abortion, same sex marriages, pornography, and other immoral activities legal or at least acceptable.

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Guns don’t kill people. People kill people. Each person has a soul that was given to them by our Creator. That soul is the motivator for good or evil in that person, and is fed by the moral code that they obtained in their lifetime.

Put God back in our schools. Preach “love thy neighbor”, and train up a child in the way he should go. All that wisdom and more can be found in the Scriptures.

Satan is in control of our world and, diabolical is his program. There is a war going on between God Jehovah and the devil. When things happen like the murders in Sandy Hook, Satan is winning. When we feel safe and secure in our communities, God is winning and our faith and prayers are answered.

If our country is to have social peace and justice, our nation’s relationship with God must improve first.

Merry Christmas, we are celebrating Jesus birthday.

KEN KNUTH

East Goshen

It’s not rocket science

When is this country going to have enough of these shooting tragedies and implement some reasonable limitations on gun purchasers, weapons and ammunition? This is not rocket science ... this is just common sense. No other civilized country in the world comes close to our murder rates. We will never eliminate such instances completely, but anything we can do to reduce the frequency and scope of such incidents has to be tried. Are we just going to throw our hands up and shrug our shoulders?

Background checks, eliminate assault weapons, limit clip sizes -- we can put rockets on other planets and we can’t come up with some relatively basic procedures and controls? Are you kidding me?

And when is the NRA going to become a proactive force for change rather then a roadblock at every turn. They wrap themselves in a perverse interpretation of a 2nd Amendment that was crafted in the age of muskets and militias. What about the notion of our Founding Fathers that we are all entitled to the unalienable right of “life, liberty and pursuit of happiness”? Tell that to the families in Newtown or Aurora or Columbine.

The lack of political will in Washington is shameful.

PAUL CURRIE

Chadds Ford

Lack of values in the U.S.

So, another unspeakably horrible shooting has happened. Here’s the scoop: as long as abortion on demand remains legal, and Christian prayer and Bible teaching remains illegal in our schools, people might keep killing. We are, somewhat due to the ACLU, under a trumped-up charge of “a separation of church and state” for which there is absolutely nothing in the Constitution, and as long as the present state of things continue, so will mass killing.